Saturday 10 February 2018

The winless teams 2017-18

Having seen which sides are unbeaten across Europe, this post is to check in on the teams that are yet to taste a league victory. In total there are four sides across European top divisions yet to win a league game. One of them hasn't even registered a single point and another is still within a shout of staying up despite their winless run. Let's meet the teams.

Andorra - Penya Encarnada d'Andorra

Penya Encarnada d'Andorra or Penya for short are enduring a very difficult campaign in the Andorra top division. Promoted last season via the play-offs the campaign to date has seen them play fifteen games and collected just a solitary point in the process. 
A very young club that was founded only in 2009 it seems Penya will be returning to the second tier baring a serious upturn in results. Penya have graced the top divison once in their short history which was 2015-16 and they went down with six points, a win and three draws. They have some work to do this campaign to try and beat that tally as they are currently six points off Encamp who occupy the play-off spot in the eight team division. 

Bulgaria - Vitosha Bistritsa

Kostadin Angelov needs a miracle
source: wiki
Vitosha Bistritsa are this season playing their first ever top flight campaign. However the campaign isn't going as they might've liked as they currently sit bottom after twenty games with just five points to their name. Promotion was secured last season after a third place finish in the second tier. This ensured a play-off with Neftochimic Burgas who they overcame 1-0. 
The league has been on the winter pause since mid-December allowing the club time to reflect and make improvements ahead of a crucial spring campaign to ensure they get to extend their top flight stay. Defensively Vitosha are the worst in the division with the concession of forty-four goals thus far while only scoring ten themselves so you have the horrible mixture of being the worst defense and also the weakest attack. Manager Kostadin Angelov remains at the helm, for now, having overseen the rise of the club to the top division. Vitosha host Dunav Ruse next weekend when the league resumes, Dunav being directly above them in the table albeit some ten points better off. 

Gibraltar - Manchester 62

Sitting at the bottom of the Gibraltarian Premier division is Manchester 62. The club was as the name does suggest named after a certain successful English team with the 62 being the year of foundation. This season however they haven't quite lived up to the name enduring a poor campaign that sees them with just the five points from ten games. They struggled somewhat last season finishing 9th but stayed up by virtue of beating the wonderfully named Bruno's Magpies in the play-off. 
This coming weekend they face European chasing Gibraltar United looking to arrest the run of bad form. 

San Marino - SS Murata

National champions from 2006 to 2008 , SS Murata are a different proposition these days. Currently rock bottom of the Group B section of the totally amateur Campionato Sammarinese, Murata are suffering a retched season. Their record makes for painful reading with fourteen played, no wins, no draws, four scored and forty-three conceded. 
Given the size of San Marino it may come as no shock that there isn't any relegation to worry about for SS Murata. Murata have six league games remaining to register even a point but given that their recent results have been 9-0 and 3-0 reverses that might be a challenge in itself. 

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